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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[3260] In the ms. we find “to chill and numb”—congelare, constringere; but the last word, too, is marked as spurious.
[3261] ms. sustinere (marked as a gloss), “to sustain;” perferre, “to endure.”
[3262] See Introduction.
[3263] [Our author thus identifies himself with Christians, and was, doubtless, baptized when he wrote these words.]
[3264] Sine ullis feriis, a proverbial expression, “without any holidays;” i.e. without any intermixture of good.
[3265] For qui durare Ursinus would read quiret durare; but this seems to have no ms. authority, though giving better sense and an easier construction.
[3266] That is, unsuccessfully.
[3267] Alemanni, i.e., the Germans; hence the French Allemagne. The ms. has Alamanni.
[3268] [“Innumerable Christians:” let this be noted.]
[3269] The Gætuli and Tinguitani were African tribes. For Tinguitanos, another reading is tunc Aquitanos; but Tinguitanos is much to be preferred on every ground.
[3270] The ms. reads at, “but.”
[3271] Defendere is added in the ms., but marked as a gloss.
[3272] Consumere is in like manner marked as a gloss.
[3273] So Orelli, for the ms. judicationis, “judgment.”
[3274] The carelessness of some copyist makes the ms. read ve-st-ri, “your,” corrected as above by Ursinus.
[3275] So Ursinus, followed by Heraldus, LB., and Orelli, for the ms. errores, which Stewechius would change into errones—“vagrants”—referring to the spirits wandering over the earth: most other edd., following Gelenius, read, “called demigods, that these indeed”—dæmonas appellat, et hos, etc.
[3276] So the ms., which is corrected in the first ed. “us to be willing”—nos velle: Stewechius reads, “us to be making good progress, are envious, enraged, and cry aloud,” etc.—nos belle provenire compererunt, invident, indignantur, declamitantque, etc.; to both of which it is sufficient objection that they do not improve the passage by their departure from the ms.
[3277] A beautiful appeal, and one sufficient to show that our author was no longer among catechumens.]
[3278] So LB. and Orelli; but the ms. reads, “himself to be like a god by his prophets,” etc.—se esse similem profiteatur in vatibus.
[3279] So corrected by Pithœus for the ms. profanus.
[3280] [Evidences of our author’s Christian status abound in this fine passage.]
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